Rikki's will honor Rikki Streicher, the legendary community activist, owner, and operator of three shuttered lesbian bars in the city.
Danielle Thoe and Sara Yergovich met playing soccer together for the San Francisco Spikes, an LGBTQ+ soccer club. They bonded over their shared struggle to find a bar to watch the WNBA, Bay FC, or any other women’s sports game.
Maud’s and Amelia’s, two of Streicher’s most popular lesbian bars, were gathering places for queer women in San Francisco from the late sixties into the nineties. Originally discreetly referred to as “The Study,” Maud’s was open 365 days a year so that patrons could come in at any time of the year and have a family to celebrate the holidays with. “Building that kind of space, that’s a hub for people to come together is really important to us,” says Thoe.
“I’ve never been in a room with two hundred people watching the same women’s sporting event, and all cheering and groaning and gasping at the same time,” said Thoe after one watch party for the WNBA Finals announced just 36 hours before it began. “That’s special, the feeling that everybody else here is a part of this. That’s the feeling we want people to be able to find.” At that venue, hosted at Standard Deviant Brewing, attendees spilled out onto the sidewalk.
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